Brian Bennett, 33, was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs at a University Place middle school. On Friday he pleaded not guilty to charges of two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
(Tacoma News Tribune)

A seventh grade teacher was charged with multiple criminal counts Friday for allegedly selling drugs during school hours, the Tacoma News Tribune reports.

Brian Bennett, 33, has been a middle school teacher for nine years in University Place, Wash. When Bennett was arrested, officers found 41 Oxycodone pills and 1.8 grams of heroin in his car, police said.

He told detectives that he had sought out drug treatment over the winter.

"He confessed to smoking heroin at school in his car in the parking lot," court documents state. "He said he never sold any drugs to kids. He did admit to leaving school during school hours to sell Oxycodone."

Bennett pleaded not guilty to two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Elsewhere in the Northwest

The lip-synching Tacoma firefighters we told you about on Wednesday have made it to the final round in a Good Morning America contest. The Tacoma Fire Department entered into the national contest by creating a video featuring the firefighters lip synching to "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities. Viewers voted for their favorite videos.

Three Tacoma firefighters will go to New York and compete in a live challenge Monday through Wednesday. The winner will receive $10,000. [Tacoma News Tribune]

Ten years after her husband's disappearance, an Arlington woman has admitting to killing her husband. Michele Donohue pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday. She said she killed her husband, Byron Wright, and buried him in the backyard.

In February, detectives found Wright's dismembered body buried under two feet of dirt and a cement floor. An autopsy shows he was stabbed multiple times.

Donohue faces up to 18 years in prison. [HearldNet]

A woman who wanted to escape the cops hid under the bed in a home she allegedly ransacked. The cops didn't find her.

The incident occurred Wednesday night after a couple returned home to find their home ransacked. The couple called police after finding lotion smeared on the door, inner soles removed from their shoes and clothes strewn about. Police searched the place and then left to finish paperwork. But the cops got a call soon after they left when the couple reported hearing strange sounds coming from under their bed.

Police arrested a 27-year-old woman who told police she had been on a "meth rampage." [Seattlepi]